This is a step by step tutorial on HowtoForge on how to install the server component of Puppet (puppetmaster) on one machine, and the Puppet client (puppetd) on another.
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If you're not familiar with Puppet, it's a configuration automation tool that allows you to centralize management of the various *nix flavors running on [...]

Jay Lyman, an analyst for open source at The 451 Group, told ZDNet Asia that the Ubuntu-Linspire deal addresses the Linux fragmentation problem in several ways.
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Ian Murdock, CTO of The Linux Foundation, an industry organization recently formed from the merger of the Open Source Development Labs and the Free Standards Group, said any [...]

For those of you using some of the default Ubuntu themes (Human, Tango or Industrial) there is a package that will match those same themes for your Firefox browser
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The key in this blog entry is that it shows how to make dual-boot when you have installed Ubuntu first!
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Scenario: You want to install XP on your machine alongside your existing Linux installation, on the same drive. You have installed Ubuntu already. (If you have already have XP installed, keep an eye out [...]

Ubuntu developers are finalising preparations for the release of the next version — dubbed Feisty Fawn — of the popular Linux distribution in mid-April
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“As of today, main is frozen while preparing for Herd 5,” Heen wrote in an e-mail to the Ubuntu development community. “All uploads to main [...]

This blog describes how to install Ubuntu on an Acer Aspire 1690
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My laptop is rendered useless by a problem in windows. The First partition is erased and the second is backupped. Vista will be installed on this machine Monday.
So, I guess this the perfect time to install Ubuntu on this machine.

ITWire's Sam Varghese interviews Mark Shuttleworth in this short article about the purpose and goals of Ubuntu.
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The owner of Canonical, the parent firm of Ubuntu, offered to answer any questions I had about the project following the publication of an article about Ubuntu a couple of weeks ago. While he had no problem [...]

Songbird? is a desktop Web player, a digital jukebox and Web browser mash-up. Like Winamp, it supports extensions and skins feathers.
Like Firefox®, it is built from Mozilla®, cross-platform and open source.
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The only conclusion I?ve come to yet is that what people _say_ impresses them about Ubuntu is not what actually impresses them about Ubuntu.
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What impresses me about Ubuntu every time I install it in a VM is the fundamental – to use a controversial term – GNOMEness of everything. It?s very [...]

Edward Macnaghten at Free Software Magazine lets his kids use Ubuntu – and they don't need Vista….
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The children are the only ones who really use it and the applications they use are OpenOffice.org for typing homework, Firefox for researching projects etc and MSN for chatting with friends – though not necessarily in that [...]

In this article i describe some of the things to do immediately after installing ubuntu on your machine .
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Since most of the people reading this would be shifting from Windows to Linux with a system dual booting so i would focus more on making transition easy from Windows to Linux.

Blogbeebe continues his testing of Ubuntu and blogs about his experiences.
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I finally got some more time this evening to try out various applications with Ubuntu 7.04. But before I get started, I need to clarify a statement I made earlier. Not only are the Ubuntu developers deserving of praise, but so are the [...]

The 2007 road map for the Ubuntu Linux operating system includes continuing its focus on the desktop, paying more attention to the server and garnering additional corporate support.
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Already in 2007 Canonical has struck deals with SpikeSource, Linspire and SugarCRM to help boost adoption of Ubuntu.
However, “Why don't we see Linux in [...]

Getting the NVIDIA Geforce video card working to it?s full potential with Ubuntu edgy requires the installation of an additional glx driver package.
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These drivers do not come preconfigured with the Ubuntu distribution and need to be enabled in order get the most from a Geforce video card. The process is simple, however many tutorials make [...]

With Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Xubuntu each deploying a different desktop environment (GNOME, KDE, and Xfce respectively), how do each of these distributions compare performance-wise?
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In these tests with the dual Clovertown setup we found the results to be indistinguishable. However, with the AMD Sempron, Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn Herd 4 had outperformed [...]

I finally broke down and installed Ubuntu (7.04 Alpha 3) over Fedora Core 6 this evening. I decided to do this after reading about Eric Raymond's rant against his installation of FC6. In the end he installed Ubuntu 6.10 over it. So I decided I'd give it a whirl as well.
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Final Thoughts
This whole experience [...]

After thirteen years as a loyal Red Hat and Fedora user, I reached my limit today, when an attempt to upgrade one (1) package pitched me into a four-hour marathon of dependency chasing, at the end of which an attempt to get around a trivial file conflict rendered my system unusable.
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Maybe it was time to figure out how to encrypt the entire drive with a non-container method, and I wanted to look away from TrueCrypt since I?m interested in crypto diversity.
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The drawback with my TrueCrypt method is having to create files of fixed sizes. You either have a lot of empty space tied [...]

Andrew Thomas at The Inquirer didn't like Ubuntu when he tried to install it, so now it's Vista time again for him.
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So I've done what any normal person would do in the circumstances ? give up. If the awfully-clever people who write bits of open source code can't make it work automatically, [...]

Since KVM is now officially supported by the Linux 2.6.20 kernel, the module will be available in some upcoming Linux distribution releases.
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The latest release of the Linux kernel, 2.6.20, includes integrated virtualization capabilities with the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM). The KVM kernel module, the development of which was largely sponsored by start-up [...]

Put in a nutshell, this book is a collection of around 100 tips and tricks which the authors choose to call hacks, which explain how to accomplish various tasks in Ubuntu Linux
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All the ten chapters combined, there are a total of 100 tips (Oops! hacks) in this unique book which are based [...]

Ah, sadly, you can?t use streamripper. Most radios use Windows streams, so we?ll have to use Mplayer to record it.
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This blog entry shows us how HP PhotoSmart 2575 is made to work with Ubuntu.
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By plugging the printer into USB I managed without problem to get printing working, but I didn't get any scanning: XSane gave error messages and despite the printer looking ok in the Printers dialogue, I found no options for [...]

It has carried on through a few versions of Ubuntu and had most of what I needed to get VNC working on GNOME in Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft), although it took the better part of a morning to piece together.
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Last year I set up VNC Server in Fedora Core 5, and the [...]

Debian and Ubuntu have a handy way to get a list of everything that the aptitude package manager is keeping track of.
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Since that package management system is the main reason *why* many people are using Ubuntu or Debian, that means pretty much everything that's installed. And, since this list is in plain [...]

This blog at thetechlounge compares Vista and Ubuntu's eye candy.
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One of my first priorities after getting Ubuntu up and running was to make it sexy. Damn sexy. OS X has spoiled me, and I need my eye candy. Unlike the limited skinning options with Windows (Windows Blinds [...]

Ubuntu Customization Kit is a tool that helps you to customize official Ubuntu Live CDs (including Kubuntu/Xubuntu and Edubuntu) to your needs. You can add any package to the live system, including language packs and applications.
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Release focus: Major feature enhancements
Changes:Upgrading the kernel should now be possible. During the building process, [...]

Canonical announced it has partnered with LynuxTraining Sàrl to develop the first dedicated Ubuntu training courses for the ?Ubuntu Certified Professional? status.
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Starting from the first quarter of 2007 system administrators will be able to participate in two five day courses available via a global network of partners with the [...]

Welcome to Feisty Fawn Herd 4, which will in time become Ubuntu 7.04. The primary focus during the time from Herd 3 has been a mix of feature development and bug fixing. UPDATE: Screenshots en masse!
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Ubuntu “Feisty Fawn” 7.04 has two more months before its planned release on April 19th. Herd 4, [...]

Network Bonding, otherwise known as port trunking allows you to combine multiple network ports into a single group, effectively aggregating the bandwidth of multiple interfaces into a single connection.
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For example, you can aggregate two gigabyte ports into a two-gigabyte trunk port. Bonding is used primarily to provide network load balancing and fault tolerance. [...]